Easy to use Online Quiz Software
Those of you who are already using ‘Hot Potatoes’ free online quiz software will already know how powerful and easy to use it is. For those who don’t, the release of version 6 for Windows is packed with features. There are six separate applications that make up the download enabling you to create a wide range of on-line learning, testing or diagnostic-type exercises: the ubiquitous multiple choice question, short answers, jumbledsentences, crosswords, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises. The new version allows time limits on question sets as well as the ability to mix question types in one exercise. Download Hot Potatoes and give it a try! http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/index.htm#downloads
Create audio-visual presentations with SMIRK
Imagine a simplified PowerPoint–type application with a voice recorder in the interface. Now with a microphone attached to your PC you can create multimedia slideshows complete with voiceover, associated text as well as pictures, diagrams and hyperlinks all in a totally accessible format. Your completed lecture/presentation can then be posted to the web. You can download SMIRK from http://smirk.herts.ac.uk/. The site contains some sample presentations and the development team would welcome your feedback.
e-Prints UK Project
The goal of this project is to share electronic archives of research output (theses etc) across UK HE and FE. A series of workshops is being run to provide an introduction to ePrints and institutional repositories and the issues surrounding them. http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/
Artifact launch
The Humbul Humanities Hub has a new sister with the recent launch of ARTIFACT (http://www.artifact.ac.uk/) a new free online subject gateway to the arts and creative industries. The cataloguing team at Artifact have identified a range of high quality online resources in areas including: culture, performing arts, communications and media and design. While we are talking hubs… why not give the new ‘search refinement’ tool on the Humbul website a tryout. (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/index.html). Easy to use drop-down menus on the search results page make it much faster to navigate to the resource you’re looking for.
e-Learning series
The LTSN Generic centre has produced a series of guides to e-learning aimed at specific audiences within UK HE including heads of department and teachers. Written by leading practitioners in the field these guides contain a wealth of practical advice and are useful for those working on e-learning strategy etc. You can either download the individual titles from the Generic Centre website http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/1682.htm or contact brett.lucas@rhul.ac.uk if you would like all the titles in a
